Film of interview with Billy Draper, 7 of 11

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Oral history of Billy Draper

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Billy Draper (aged 101), of Haslinton, interviewed September 1996 by Grant Smith, recorded on VHS video. Draper was a private in 19th Company RAMC (Royal Army Medical Corps), a unit known as “The Whalley Pals”.
9.48 mins duration, chapter 7 of 11: Billy Draper recalls: Hanrahan taking men to fight a fire in Whalley / moving stores on trains after the war, Ripon, Kirkham / in Ypres sent up the Menin Road, school and narrow gauge railway line to treat wounded soldiers and finding a souvenir, and hiding it in his kit when returning home.